Katie Barcelona

Specialist

Pinterest Director of Brand

Pentagram Associate Partner

eMusic Art Director

Vanderbyl DesignDesigner

Before writing this I was frantically searching for cuitlacoche down the street in el mercado Escandón, before that I was packing all my belongings to move to Mexico City, before that I was leading the brand team at Pinterest in San Francisco, before that I taught branding at my alma mater, California College of the Arts, before that I got married in City Hall, before that I was learning Spanish, before that I moved to Barcelona for a boy, before that I was falling in love on a beach one Summer sunrise in Barcelona thinking, shit, this is going to change everything, before that I was an associate partner atPentagram working with my design dad, Michael Bierut, before that I was teaching at Parsons School of Design, before that I was an art director at an independent music company called eMusic (with Adrianne!), before that I had a stint in corporate identity which I hated, before that I got rid of almost everything and moved to New York City with 2 bags, 3 months of savings, and no job, before that I worked at Vanderbyl Design in San Francisco, before that I went to California College of the Arts, before that I thought I wanted to be an anatomical illustrator, before that I was a white water rafting guide in Oregon and forgetting to put on sunscreen, before that I was painting giant oil portraits dreaming of traveling the world and escaping that small town, before that…